DUSSELDORF — France e England they’re twin groups, they play worse and worse however they transfer one step after one other in direction of a remaining that they have been anticipated to achieve however not like this, not with this horrible ugliness within the recreation, with this horrible lack of concepts. However the reality is that the English are within the semi-finals and that the Swisssupported by an extremely passionate fan base, exits within the quarter-finals for the second version of the ultimate: three years in the past in St. Petersburg it occurred to them towards Spain, this time right here in Düsseldorf it deserved it even much less. However towards the English and French result-makers nobody has but discovered a method to get away with it.
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Southgate’s decisions
It went to penalties after one aim in every half (Embolo e Ofthe very best on the pitch) and a protracted match with alternating phases, which began properly by England and completed higher by Switzerland. Southgate he had corrected the crew as he had allow us to intuit, that’s, by falling again on a three-man defence, however altering greater than he had imagined: it was not a lot the addition of His head (Guhé period disqualified) to finish the defensive trio, when the interlocking actions are designed to make them as snug as attainable The foot e Bellnghamthe 2 champions who can direct the English destinies: holding Of very huge on the precise (not fairly a full wing however virtually, actually not a pure winger as standard) the coach freed up house for Foden, who within the first 4 video games had by no means been in a position to transfer from the left and had felt caged, and gave extra autonomy of motion to Bellingham, additionally exempting him from the majority of the overlaying work, which Foden himself took on.
England not very efficient
Not that any nice wonders got here out of it, however in comparison with the non-existent recreation of the teams, and much more so the spherical of 16 towards Slovakia, some sparkle got here out of it, a lot in order that Switzerland, who had began with a sure swagger, quickly started to fret, to retreat, to be as cautious as attainable. Aebischerspecifically, suffered terribly from Saka’s runs, however all through the primary half England’s hazard, which was persistent in creating play, stopped on the final go, by no means decisive, and so they did not create any actual probabilities. It should be mentioned that Switzerland is a crew that defends very properly and so they did so right here too. In brief, for England, this was not a snug opponent. We all know this properly.
England-Switzerland report playing cards: Saka untouchable, Aebischer in confusion
from our correspondent Emanuele Gamba
England’s decisive adjustments
Nati labored significantly better after the break. She understood the place she was going flawed, she prevented being crushed once more and he or she began to stay her nostril out of the world in order that the sport was rebalanced, getting into the 5 minutes of emotion that redeemed all of the boredom of earlier than: at 75′ Ndoye he ran down the precise and crossed low into the field, the place Stones he was not prepared and his contact facilitated the irruption of Embolo, forward of Walker. The Swiss stands, already the protagonists of a wild cheer, went into ecstasy, whereas England have been about to enter confusion. Then Southgate modified his formation, as he solely does when he’s determined and throws it in direction of creating chaos: he modified three males in a single go and instantly after got here the equaliser, even when he did not get something proper with the substitutions as a result of it was simply the umpteenth consequence of the mismatch between Aebischer and Saka, who this time as a substitute of crossing positioned a left-footed shot low to the far publish the place Sommerlined, couldn’t arrive. By the way, it was England’s first shot on the right track of the entire season, simply as had occurred with Bellingham’s overhead kick towards Slovakia: a minimum of it may be mentioned that England’s photographs are deadly. The second will probably be from Ricefirstly of additional time: Sommer will deflect the ball right into a nook.
Akanji misses the decisive penalty
Switzerland will do higher than the now confused England additionally within the additional half-hour, taunting on the counterattack and scaring the English within the final minutes, first with a nook of Shaqiri which hit the crossbar and at last with a shot from Amdouni (Sure had simply despatched out all of the penalty takers) rejected by Pickfordwho will then develop into the protagonist within the penalty shootout: by placing on a little bit of theatre between one shot and the following he’ll handle to dam the one from Akanji (which he had additionally made a mistake three years in the past) and that would be the decisive save. The seal will probably be placed on it Alexander-Arnold despatched on the pitch particularly to take the final penalty: a minimum of that transfer, Southgate acquired it proper.
England vs Switzerland scoresheet
England 1 (35′ st Saka)
Switzerland 1 (30′ st Embolo)
England (3-4-2-1): Pickford 7 – Walker 5, Stones 5.5, Konsa 6 (33’ st Shaw 6) – Saka 7.5, Mainoo 6 (33’ st Eze) 5.5, Rice 6.5, Trippier 5.5 (33’ st Palmer 6) – Foden 5 (10’ sts Alexander-Arnold 7), Bellingham 5.5 – Kane 5 (4’ sts Toney sv). Ct Southgate 6.
Switzerland (3-4-3): Summer time 6 – Schär, 6, Akanji 7, Rodriguez 7 – Ndoye 6.5 (8′ pts Zakaria sv), Fellow 6.5 (13′ sts Sierro sv), Xhaka 6.5, Aebischer 4.5 (13′ sts Amdouni sv) – Rieder 5.5 (19′ ‘ st Widmer 6), Embolo 6.5 (4′ sts Shaqiri 6.5), Vargas 5 (19’ st Zuber 6). Ct Yakin 6.5.
Referee: Bear (Ita) 6.5.
Word: Schär, Kane and Widmer booked. Attendance: 46,907
Penalty sequence: Palmer objectives, Akanji Parato, Bellingham objectives, Schär objectives, Saka objectives, Shaqiri objectives, Toney objectives, Amdouni objectives, Alexander-Arnold objectives.
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